* run the installer in '''Package Manager Mode''' and select '''kdewin-installer(-mingw|-msvc) '''

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* install the above mentioned packages with <make-tool> install

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* run kdewin-packager from kde installation bin dir with the following options:

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- name <the name of the package>

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- version <the package version e.g. 1.2.3 or 20090312

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- type <msvc> or <mingw> depending on the type of used compiler

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- root <the install root where the package has been installed into>

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- srcroot <the root of the source package tree>

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- destdir <the directory where the package will be placed into>

Revision as of 06:38, 5 April 2009

This page describes (re)building of KDE binary packages using the kdewin distribution.

Applications build in this way will not have debugging support because the packages build in release mode do not have any debug symbols. If you need debug symbols you should use the Windows emerge tool

It is assumed that KDE is installed using the KDEWin gui or console installer in %PROGRAMFILES%\kde and a developer tries to recompile the kdeedu binary package.
It is also assumed that the KDE installation tree is empty or contains only packages for the related compiler.

(Re)building packages for MS Visual Studio C++

kdeedu bin and source package - this will also select all depending packages

automoc

cmake

perl

psdk-msvc

one of the vcexpress-xx-msvc package

the development packages required for building the requested package. In the Package Manager mode of the gui installer you can see the required package dependencies by clicking on the package name (only first level dependency yet). For the kdeedu package the development package for kdelibs-msvc, kdebase-runtime-msvc and qt-msvc are required.

install the selected packages using the installer.

open a Visual Studio command prompt

set the required environment for the MS Platform SDK e.g. if your are using the 2003 R2 Release of the Platform SDK the command line looks like that:

(Re)building packages for the MinGW compiler

the kdeedu bin and source package - this will also select all depending packages

automoc

cmake

gcc-mingw

perl

the development packages required for building the requested package. In the Package Manager mode of the gui installer you can see the required package dependencies by clicking on the package name (only first level dependency yet). For the kdeedu package the development package for kdelibs-mingw, kdebase-runtime-mingw and qt-mingw are required.

install the selected packages using the installer. For the gcc-mingw package use \Mingw as installation root.

add bin subdirectory of the mingw installation dir to the PATH environment variable

set PATH=\Mingw\bin;%PATH%

add bin subdirectory of the kde installation dir to the PATH environment variable

Make a binary package for the KDE on windows distribution

run the installer in Package Manager Mode and select kdewin-installer(-mingw|-msvc)

install the above mentioned packages with <make-tool> install

run kdewin-packager from kde installation bin dir with the following options:

- name <the name of the package>
- version <the package version e.g. 1.2.3 or 20090312
- type <msvc> or <mingw> depending on the type of used compiler
- root <the install root where the package has been installed into>
- srcroot <the root of the source package tree>
- destdir <the directory where the package will be placed into>